Defenses of the Belarusian nuclear power plant and preparations for reactor startup

While talking about the readiness of the first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, ASE Company Vice President and supervisor of the Belarusian nuclear power plant construction project Vitaly Polyanin said: “We are getting ready for the most important part of the tests – hot trials of the reactor unit. In essence, it will be a complete imitation of a live nuclear reactor. Only genuine fuel will be replaced with fuel rod array imitators. This step is supposed to confirm the quality of installation and assembly work. It will also confirm the reactor unit's compliance with design parameters and performance parameters.”